What a colossal bit of fuckery. I'm SO thankful I didn't spend much time on this.
Ass-clownery 1, well-intentioned passionate developers 0. Well played, dinosaur; well played. On Jul 10, 2016 11:15 AM, "David Ash" <[email protected]> wrote: > I think the retirement talks should resume. > > What little steam I had three months ago for keeping it alive is gone. We > lost momentum more quickly than we gained it. I had quickly lost the two > other volunteers I brought on (within days). And I have not managed to get > any additional individuals interested. Without significantly more people, > it's not viable. I also don't think I ever got the commit status I had > applied for (or at least I never got a reply to my question regarding that > status). But I also never performed any significant work that went > uncommitted, so I'd like to avoid that being an excuse for my own > shortcomings. I feel like losing momentum and having an exceptionally busy > schedule (even for me) was more to blame there -- I spent two weeks in > Japan, and have been working 16-hour days finishing a project that I will > be demonstrating at an MIT symposium in the near future. Those are great > things for me personally, but have not been good for my involvement in > OpenAz. > > Further, it has become apparent that Apache is not the right kind of > organization for me or this project. It seems to be a process-heavy, > patience-driven, slow-and-steady wins the race kind of approach geared > toward maximizing small amounts of work by large numbers of people across > the globe. Although I recognize the value of that approach, I feel like it > is geared more toward developing software that is either 1) In high demand > (and will thus have numerous volunteers); 2) Already quite mature (ready > for its first release on the first day of incubation); or 3) Has a small, > tightly-knit team largely working outside the Apache process but following > just enough of the rules to stay alive until the popularity catches on or > it has become mature enough for natural survival. > > My preferred approach is on the Kanban side of Agile: process-light, > informal, momentum-driven development with minimal oversight, release early > and often, with tight feedback loops everywhere, and real-time > communications between a very small number of highly-dedicated developers. > That's the startup methodology, and I feel like it is better geared toward > bringing new things to market. I can also understand and respect why it > might not be the best general methodology for Apache, and with their track > record I could hardly say they're "doing it wrong." But I don't think it's > for me. > > I still hope the project can somehow survive, but I won't be part of it. > Good luck to everyone in their projects, present and future. I wish you > all success in your ventures. > > > Thanks! > > David Ash > > > On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 9:42 AM, John D. Ament <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > OpenAz, > > > > We previously had a vote to retire this podling, and this would have been > > your third month reporting monthly since that. Your report is missing. > > > > Are we now in a situation where the retirement vote should restart? I > saw > > that there was little mailing list activity other than the board report. > > > > John > > >
